Hacker News: chillingeffect

New comment by chillingeffect in "Soul Player C64 – A real transformer running on a 1 MHz Commodore 64"

chillingeffect — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 02:31:13 +0000

not useful in a disaster scenario:

YOU> HELP I'M DROWNING

C64> YOU' HERE!

YOU> OH NO I'M ON FIRE

C64> IGLAY!

YOU> IM BEING SWALLOWED BE A SNAKE

C64>

YOU> BIRDS ARE NIPPING ON ME

C64> YOU

New comment by chillingeffect in "Vouch"

chillingeffect — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 01:46:29 +0000

I really like this...I've been trying to come up with a similar system, not necessarily for just gh, but for comms in general. And with groups so e.g. someone from my group can trust someone in the group of a someone I trust. And from there it would be neat to add voting...so someone requires a number of votes before they can be trusted.

New comment by chillingeffect in "Elon Musk is getting serious about orbital data centers"

chillingeffect — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:36:54 +0000

yes and also no ;) Think of stirling engines as driven by "heat differentials" as opposed to "heat." At first when you fire up the GPU, it's hotter than everythign else and can start driving a stirling...but eventually everything heats up to the same temp and it stops moving. To get it moving again, requires a heat differential, so part of it would need to radiate, which is blatantly difficult in a vacuum(1), such as space.

In case it's not clear: Little-St. James Wannabe Invitee, Nazi-Saluter, Musk's full of it again, but to recognize it requires being halfway through college physics to understand it, so all the elites will be glazed over thinking they're onto the next big thing. grift, grift, grift, grift.

(1) a giant flipping vacuum.

New comment by chillingeffect in "Elon Musk is getting serious about orbital data centers"

chillingeffect — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:56:10 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autono...

and (no longer updated sadly):

https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/

New comment by chillingeffect in "Elon Musk is getting serious about orbital data centers"

chillingeffect — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:54:37 +0000

When someone can’t manage first-order thermodynamics or basic human boundaries, it’s reasonable to downgrade their credibility across domains.

re: thermodynamics....you can not feasibly dissipate GPU/LLM/Data center-level heat in space. You'd need radiators the size of football fields and you'd be highly susceptible to cosmic debris.

Also: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/30/elon-musk...

New comment by chillingeffect in "APT Rust requirement raises questions"

chillingeffect — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 13:45:29 +0000

> If folks want more Rust projects under licenses they prefer, they should start those projects.

100% true, but also hides a powerful fact: Our choices aren't limited to doing it ourselves. Listening to others and discussing how to do things as a group is the essence of community seeking long-term stability abd fairness. It'a how we got to the special place we are now.

Not everyone can or should start their own open source project. Maybe theyre already doing another one. Maybe they don't know how to code. The viewpoint of others/users/customers is valid and should not only be listened to but asked for.

New comment by chillingeffect in "APT Rust requirement raises questions"

chillingeffect — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 23:26:28 +0000

True, but you might want to look into the licenses people are actually choosing for Rust versions of coreutils/uutils and who's promoting them.

New comment by chillingeffect in "In leaked recording, Nvidia CEO says its insane managers aren't using AI enough"

chillingeffect — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:40:25 +0000

>And if AI does not work for a specific task, "use it until it does," he added.

New comment by chillingeffect in "APT Rust requirement raises questions"

chillingeffect — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:47:24 +0000

Even worse, the license requirements (gpl->mit) will be less beneficial to the community than the rust replacements.

New comment by chillingeffect in "Two minutes on a porch, a misunderstanding and a gunshot killed a house cleaner"

chillingeffect — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 21:35:45 +0000

The 2nd amendment is different from the Castle doctrine. You can have the 1st one without the 2nd one.

A militia to deter occupiers is different from protecting one's own house. And cases like this go beyond the Castle doctrine. This made had no legit fear for his life. Wiggling keys in a door and jiggling door handle don't equal legit fear. You have to at least identify a threat. This shooter was irresponsible and wrecked it for many other responsible people. Government will use this to weaken individuals' 2A rights.

New comment by chillingeffect in "Programming the Commodore 64 with .NET"

chillingeffect — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:47:25 +0000

Yeah it pays to have a huge library of routines...e.g. multiplication for every size combo of number sizes, signedness. Also sorts...everything, but if you scour youll find many :)

New comment by chillingeffect in "Dissecting Flock Safety: The Cameras Tracking You Are a Security Nightmare [video]"

chillingeffect — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 20:35:35 +0000

>Welcome feedback or new ideas to make our communities safe.

Nuture not control.

Living wage.

Access to day care.

New comment by chillingeffect in "[dead]"

chillingeffect — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 18:19:27 +0000

Id like to point out submitter, binning, has no comments and no favorites. Only a string of sexually conservative submissions with very low karma.

I submit that this user is not a hacker, nor has no intention of being part of the hacker community. They are clearly just using this resource as an outlet for their propaganda and it's not resonating with this community.

New comment by chillingeffect in "[dead]"

chillingeffect — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 18:12:30 +0000

Started off ok, but revealed themselves when talking abt trans like this:

>The bodies featured in porn are parodies of nature: women with enormous breast and butt implants; male “chicks with dicks”. A taste for sissy porn, in which men are degraded by being forcibly feminised, is central to many trans-identifying men’s belief that they are really women.

And egads: >trans-identifying male journalist Andrea Long Chu,

Ouch! This is just another "porn is extreme" panic with no insight.

New comment by chillingeffect in "Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon"

chillingeffect — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:09:57 +0000

The invention of the corporation is virtually to eliminate responsibility/culpability from any individual.

Human car crash? Human punishment. Corporate-owned car crash? A fine which reduces salaries some negligible percent.

New comment by chillingeffect in "How bad can a $2.97 ADC be?"

chillingeffect — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:19:19 +0000

If hate the esp32 adc, let me introduce you to its "fpu." Or its external flash and memory...

New comment by chillingeffect in "Making regular GPS ultra-precise"

chillingeffect — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 14:24:07 +0000

Why over a special radio system? Why not over the internet?

New comment by chillingeffect in "Making regular GPS ultra-precise"

chillingeffect — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 14:23:18 +0000

Why a special wifi? Why not just multicast streaming over the internet?

New comment by chillingeffect in "Moving NASA Space Shuttle to Texas from DC Could Damage It, Experts Say"

chillingeffect — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 12:58:32 +0000

Some good details.

New comment by chillingeffect in "iRobot Founder: Don't Believe the AI and Robotics Hype"

chillingeffect — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 12:15:19 +0000

That invokes the ship of theseus. China could terraform Nigeria. Megabridges, super housing projects, surveillance, etc.

(Wait this is still the rodney brooks discussion!?)